New View Rights and Responsibilities

Rights

Responsibilities

1. You have the right to feel physically and emotionally safe and secure
anywhere in the community.

1. All members of the community, adults and children, are responsible for
acting to insure the physical and emotional safety of each other.

2. You have the right to be treated respectfully by all members of the
community.

2. You have the responsibility for considering the
impact of the words and actions of all members of your household (including pets) on
others in the community and for treating members of the community respectfully.

3. You have the right to express your opinions and feelings without fear
of negative consequences.

3. You have the responsibility for expressing your ideas in a manner which
is both sensitive and appropriate.

4. You have the right to define the ways in which you will meet your
responsibilities for supporting the needs of the community.

4. You have the responsibility for contributing to the community in such a
way that its needs can be met.

5. You have the right to determine how information of a confidential
nature will be communicated.

5. You have the responsibility for insuring that an individual's desire
for confidentiality will be respected.

6. You have the right to express religious, spiritual, political or other
views of a personal nature in the community.

6. You have the responsibility for insuring that public expressions of
one's views are presented in such a way so as to respect the rights of those who do not
share in them or wish to participate in them.

7. You have the right to privacy of action within your own home and the
right to the exclusive use of your own yard.

7. You have the responsibility to abide by all local, state and federal
laws while in (or with respect to) public areas of the community.

8. You have the right to your own beliefs and values.

8. You have the responsibility for demonstrating tolerance towards those
whose beliefs and values are different from yours.

9. You have the right to free use of all those things which the
community owns in common.

9. You have the responsibility to share and care for those things which
the community holds in common such that you do not deprive others of their use.

10. You have the right to have conflicts permanently resolved.

10. You have the responsibility to work in good faith toward conflict
resolution.